New Beta patch released - 04 May

Hi everyone,

It's here.

Since, as we were struggling with the full screen mode, we managed to finalize our Crossfire and SLI support we decided to bunch it together and release a combined beta patch. All the features of the previous patch are considered final, but new features are not.

Please find the patch readme below.

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The latest patch continues to improve on overall performance and multiplayer
functionality, as well as adding new gameplay options such as new Quick missions.

The current patch contains the following changes:

GRAPHICS
* Added beta Crossfire support.
* Added True full-screen mode. The game was previously playing in a stretched
window; that mode is also still available. Switch between windowed, pseudo
(stretched window) and true full screen modes in the Video Options.
NOTE: If you are running an ATI video card and you notice reduced performance in
True full-screen mode, please switch back to Pseudo to improve framerate;
* Greatly improved performance over large cities, especially with Buildings Detail
settings set below Very High. NOTE: if you do experience stutters over cities
with Building Detail set to Very High, please consider turning it down. Even
setting this to Medium will have almost no noticeable effect on visual quality
of the game;
* Introduced background landscape loading that slowly creates landscape under the
player's camera. You can now quickly switch from England to France with
virtually no slow-downs. Performance gain is most noticeable on CPUs with four+
cores.

AIRCRAFT VISUALS
* Reduced head motion effects, especially in terms of G;
* Increased draw distance for markings and decals on aircraft;
* Fixed minor Bf. 110 damage and animation issues;
* Fixed weird movement of Bf. 110's magnetic compass dial;
* Fixed Bf. 109 gunsight misalignment;
* Fixed a hole under a damaged engine cowling in the Defiant;
* Fixed visual issues with Defiant's tail damage;
* Put a mirror onto the Hurricane;
* Fixed Hurricane's tail damage visuals;
* Updated Hurricane radiator animation;
* Ju. 88 gear now open properly;
* Fixed minor Ju. 88 damage visuals;
* Asked the Ju. 88's pilot to keep his feet on the pedals;
* Made minor changes to cockpits of G. 50 and Ju. 88;
* Fixed a visual issue with the Spitfire's antenna;
* Fixed minor Sunderland damage visuals;
* Made minor modifications to Spitfire cockpit;
* Fixed minor damage visuals in the Ju. 88;
* Fixed minor damage visuals in the Hurricane;
* Fixed minor damage visuals in the Ju. 87;
* Made various modifications to SFX.

AIRCRAFT PHYSICS & A.I
* Carburetter backfire effects now require a certain amount of gasoline mix to be
contained in the intake to actually do some damage;
* Aircraft fires now burn crew members;
* Changed magnetic inclination to 10.11 degree west to reflect actual 1940 values;
* Removed ignition control handle from the Bf. 109;
* Defiant's gunner now opens both hatches when bailing out;
* He. 111 top gunner's machine gun won't dip into the fuselage any more;
* Made all fuel pressure gauges a single-tube type;
* Made turret mounts unlock faster;
* Removed the effect that made Bf. 109's motor shake at higher altitudes;
* Added aircraft buffeting to wing icing effects;
* Increased wing lift loss during wing icing;
* Fixed the issue where non-symmetrical damage to landing flap mechanics resulted in
symmetrical air flow over both wings.

GENERAL
* Added Force Feedback support to the game;
* Added six new Il-2-style Quick missions. See them at the bottom of the list -
three each for German and British attacks of Airfields, Bridges and Transport
Columns. Fly in bombers, escort and intercept and scramble fighters, with
missions of up to 128 aircraft!
* Made sure plane selection and other user modifications stick in Quick Mission
Builder when returning to the interface after flying a custom mission;
* Restored throttle-up smoke from non-player planes;
* Fixed some pilot animations;
* Updated some briefings and other in-game texts;
* Improved the overall look of the 2D Map;
* Added a Scale control to the 2D Map (imperial for British, metric for Germans
and Italians);
* Added city and airfield labels to the 2D Map;
* Added larger 64x64 icons to the 2D Map;
* Improved the order in which icons are drawn on the 2D Map when on top of each
other;
* Improved the look of the Battle Area grid;
* Fixed icon size selection options;
* Fixed issues encountered when destroying certain types of railway cars;
* Improved ground crewmembers in online games;
* Made sure Bobbin Cable can be selected in the FMB without issues;
* Fixed an issue encountered when trying to place crew into an object without a
regiment;
* Fixed an issue with launching night missions with search lights on dedicated
servers;
* Fixed an issue with launching missions with certain ships on dedicated servers;
* Fixed an issue with launching missions with armor when sound is disabled.
* Fixed an issue with planes are once again exploding when starting in
hangars.

MULTIPLAYER
* Improved server and client stablity and performance;
* Improved statistics;
* Fixed phantom crewmembers occasionally appearing in place of dropped planes;
* Made sure airborne planes are created with sufficient airspeed in online games
(born speed now tied to the plane's top speed);
* Made sure all players see the same time of day in an online server.

CHANNEL MAP
* Made Dungeness Point look more like the real-life location;
* Added the town of Horsham to the map;
* Added Westhampnett airfield to the map.


Download links:

Mirrors:
Eng:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0H2L4V3J
Rus:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V38HO2T9

Torrents:
Eng:
http://www.1cfiles.com/IL2_CliffsofDover/IL2COD_14413.rar.torrent
Rus:
http://www.1cfiles.com/IL2_CliffsofDover/IL2COD_14413_ru.rar.torrent

Thanks 2005AD. Ah, those devious devs, luring us into a false sense of security with their on-going rapid support and improvements. All the signs of a long con, for sure. It's the ultimate complex double-bluff - the only explanation that makes sense if you really really think about it hard.

Version: 1.00.14305 - patch is 67MB

Seems to work, although getting massive stutters first time as it re-caches everything. Will see I guess.

Remember, it's a beta patch. Consider backing up your steamapps/IL2 COD directory first before applying?

Version is 1.0.14413 !!!!
You've posted the last one :-D

Radio commands still broken, really kills any single player fun

Broken Radio commands not in the list. Anyone that can confirm if it's fixed or not?

I can't believe that this bug isn't prioritized above other smaller fixes like plane visuals and not fixed yet.

Also "fixed porked aircraft performance" not on list. That and the radio commands are the two biggest issues for me

... also the campaign but that will have to me done by modders i guess.

One could be forgiven for thinking that it's not a bug and that all we have is the UI for a radio command system that is still in development.

The game's own FSAA is still rubbish and FSAA is still non-functional via the Nvidia-CP. I guess the devs still can't grasp the definition of a genuine full window.

Damn these beta patches.
I've just extracted it into my IL2 1946 directory

Damn these beta patches.
I've just extracted it into my IL2 1946 directory

Did you get any performance increases in IL2 46' ?

tried a tracer loadout for the Spit, still there are no tracers to be seen, except at the end of the ammo belts.... wtf? Back to the virtual shelf until the next patch...

I've got the tower to pipe up once or twice, and those radar people never shut up.

It is bad that it doesn't work, even at least for basic wingman commands.

Judging on the "community" reaction, as "evidenced" by the busy souls in here, this was the worst patch ever to the worst game ever. Well, I know one thing for sure: CoD is saddled with the wost community ever here at HateHQ.com...

sure patch it up as best you can, but maybe, just maybe its time to step back from the operating table and let it go...and turn off the life support with this game and start over...from the bottom up

Thank you for that meaningful post. I want to start a new thread now. It will be called
“Join the committee to Hate Cod”. But only with your permission will I start the thread,
because Lord knows I wouldn’t want to risk being called the dreaded “T” word by certain
elite members that know CoD is the Holy Grail. The person I am addressing excluded of course.
May I have permission ?

Finally able to play in my Laptops native resolution of 1920 x 1080 WOW!
.........

Subjective feeling was more jerky blah blah blah. I went back to the last official patch version (Steam File Integrity thing) and ran that, then re-installed latest beta patch and ran that.

1920x1600
Max settings except:

Building detail LOW
SSAO, Epilepsy and V-Sync OFF

Turns out this latest beta runs smoother* and with higher FPS.

The lack of FSAA, at my non-native rez (I'm running at 1920x1200 instead of 2560x1600) makes for really poor image quality. Even my 110's canopy frame has breaks/gaps in it, never mind the wings of other a/c at distances greater than approx 500m.

*Smoother = playable, but compared to RoF nowhere near as smooth. RoF does, in fact, have jerkiness, but it's so incredibly minor one has to look very very hard to spot it...eg, on the deck and looking hard at passing objects. Once up to 200m it's no longer possible to see it.
In CoD the jerkiness can be seen at all times unless well up at altitude. It's not rubber-banding as such but it is constant, like the ground is catching-up with the movement of the plane at 10m per 0.5s intervals (ie, the ground jerks approx 10m every 0.5 seconds).

The game is functional and playable but it's not pretty. Anyone comparing the performance against RoF, in terms of smoothness of movement and image quality in regard to FSAA, is going to consider RoF far superior.

I would say the FSAA, at this point, is of far greater concern than the minor jerkiness. The jerkiness is, at least, 'fluid'.

To people who are suffering lag/jerkiness, I would suggest you go back to the official patch version (Steam Integrity thing) and run the game to both reset it AND refresh your memory of how it ran then. Then delete your cache and reinstall the latest beta patch, reboot the PC and run the game anew.

And yes, I appreciate the fact I'm running the game on latest-spec hardware, so I'm least likely to have issues. I can, in fact, run at 2560x1600 and the game is playable, but the lack of FSAA at that rez makes things even more ugly.

Im seeing the same, now that my frame rate has increased to a reasonable rate there is a slight jerkiness, that I hadnt noticed before, even online when getting a fairly steady 35 - 40 fps.
I also noticed while sitting on the ground online and blasting away my ammo in a 109 that my fps dropped from 29 to 14-18 not sure if thats going to be the same when flying, and I only have an 8800gt 512 so it may have been overwhelmed as I had the ground settings at medium for the first time (Ive been able to boost a few setting with the last beta, for liyttle fps loss).

I7 920
8800gt512
3gb ddr3

What rez are you playing at, 640x480? How the hell you can expect to play the game at any tolerable settings beats me.

Im running it at 1680 x 1050 planes etc on high forests off, land medium, textures original, shadows, roads and grass off, vsync on and working, fsaa off.

Getting between 30 and 40 most times 15 to 25 over London, online it sits at 30 +, I tried your trick of resetting the game to the last official patch then reloading the beta and I must say it did work in some ways, particularly offline it was much smoother, same fps.

I will be upgrading soon but no point jumping in until the sim settles down and as it is ROF flys fine with this PC most settings high and CoD is reasonable, 640 x 480 are you kidding, do you get your Mum to configure your PC?

Are you sure you put tracers on all the belts and not just the last few rounds ?

D/Loading now, will try soon and report back with improvements I've seen or lack thereof...

Cheers

Nico

still jerky, jittery, rubberbanding.

but now i can't exit a mission either.

It is a beta patch.

I.e. for those who like to experiment...

I loaded tracers on guns 1 and 8, IIRC similar to the loadout of the Hurricane (which always showed tracers, BTW)
It seems there are no options to load tracers only for the last few rounds, hence the loadout ought to be the same for "the whole nine yards" however the Spit in CLOD always had tracers for the last rounds... beats me.
I'll leave it to someone with more patience to figure it out, CLOD and its bugs and quirks have already taken up too much of my time, until next patch it's back to ROF

I have the nasty rubber banding effect too.. Playable but barely.. I have real good framrates from 30 to 50 + most of the time but I have never seen a game jump between fps so many times , like thousands of changes in a five minute period.

I downloaded the beta tonight.

Free Flight Mission over England in the Hurri.

1920x1080 resolution
SSAO off
VSynch on
All setting medium, except buildings Low, Original textures, Model High
Specs listed below.

A whopping average of 18-20FPS. Stuttering, flickering textures, annoying. Changes in resolution affected nothing.

Is this the best 1C's got after three patches?????

Is this the best 1C's got after three patches?????

My love for the Hurricane

anyone confident crossfire is actually working with this patch? don't seem so for me.